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Matthew Yglesias is a fellow at the Center for American Progress. His first book, with the working title Heads in the Sand: Iraq and the Strange Death of Liberal Internationalism, scheduled to be published next spring by John Wiley and co., deals with the Democratic Party's struggle to find a post-9/11 foreign policy, focusing primarily on the rise and (hopefully) fall of the liberal hawk movement.

Previously, he was a staff writer at The American Prospect and an Associate Editor at TPM Media, where he contributed to the group blogs Tapped and TPMCafe. His main blog, now at The Atlantic, has existed in various forms since the dark ages of the blogosphere in January 2002.

His writing has appeared in The Guardian, Slate, The New Republic, and The Washington Monthly, and he is a regular on BloggingHeads.tv and makes the occasional radio or television appearance.

Desperately out of touch with the American mainstream, Yglesias was born and raised in Manhattan and studied philosophy at Harvard where he was editor in chief of The Harvard Independent, a campus alternative weekly.

His latest writings can be found on the Matthew Yglesias blog.

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Wishful Thinking Solves All Problems

By Matthew Yglesias

May 16 2008, 3:11 PM ET Comment

A lot of attention focused yesterday on John McCain's audaciously hopeful plan to win the war in Iraq though the power of positive thinking, but if you bore down into his speech you see that vague aspirations are actually going to accomplish all sorts of wonderful stuff by 2013.

John Boonstra, for example, is confused about McCain's plan for a coalition of countries with no leverage over Sudan to successfully pressure Sudan into resolving the conflict in Darfur. What he's not considering is that McCain would really like this to happen and would like to emphasize that it'd be really great if it worked.

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